The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1858 - English literature |
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... true , that the most important principles delivered in that Lecture are laid down by the German Sage in his Oration on the relationship of the Plastic Arts to Nature , * — yet I can not think it quite correct to say that it is " closely ...
... true , that the most important principles delivered in that Lecture are laid down by the German Sage in his Oration on the relationship of the Plastic Arts to Nature , * — yet I can not think it quite correct to say that it is " closely ...
Page xxxv
... true , and ought , in justice and charity , to be borne in mind ; I mean that men of " peculiar intellectual conformation , " who have peculiar powers of intellect , are very often peculiar in the rest of their constitution , to such a ...
... true , and ought , in justice and charity , to be borne in mind ; I mean that men of " peculiar intellectual conformation , " who have peculiar powers of intellect , are very often peculiar in the rest of their constitution , to such a ...
Page xxxix
... true , as others will eagerly testify , that the affections of Coleridge were slight and evanes- cent , his intellectual faculties alone vigorous and steadfast ; though it is true that in persons constituted like him , the former will ...
... true , as others will eagerly testify , that the affections of Coleridge were slight and evanes- cent , his intellectual faculties alone vigorous and steadfast ; though it is true that in persons constituted like him , the former will ...
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... true Catholicism , -namely that of the Church of Rome . My own belief is , that such a view of my Father's theological opinions is radically wrong ; that al- though an unripe High Church theology is all that some readers have found or ...
... true Catholicism , -namely that of the Church of Rome . My own belief is , that such a view of my Father's theological opinions is radically wrong ; that al- though an unripe High Church theology is all that some readers have found or ...
Page lxiv
... true , -what brings confusion into our moral and spiritual ideas , —or else converts the doctrine into an effectual vapor- " a potentiality in a potentiality or a chalking of chalk to make white white . " My Father , as I understand ...
... true , -what brings confusion into our moral and spiritual ideas , —or else converts the doctrine into an effectual vapor- " a potentiality in a potentiality or a chalking of chalk to make white white . " My Father , as I understand ...
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Page 414 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 361 - The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Page 147 - Poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes.
Page 364 - I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
Page 497 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Page 497 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 362 - FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with but fixities and definites. The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space ; while it is blended with, and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word Choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the Fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association.
Page 377 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 497 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 167 - Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead; You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.